Gaming, Video, YouTube Channels

YouTube gaming levels up: 3.5bn monthly views for top 100 channels | Technology | theguardian.com: "... 100 most popular gaming channels on YouTube generated nearly 3.5bn collective video views in May 2014, according to new research. Games is already one of YouTube's biggest categories alongside music, but a new monthly chart published by industry site Tubefilter, based on data from analytics firm OpenSlate, shows its scale. The most popular games channel is no surprise: PewDiePie has been the biggest channel of any category on YouTube for some time. Felix Kjellberg’s videos were watched 311.2m times in May, with 27.3m people subscribing to his channel. He was followed by British gamer Joseph Garratt’s Stampy channel, which focuses on videos created within the Minecraft game. Stampy generated 165m views in May, with 2.8m subscribers. Garratt is preparing to launch a second education-focused channel called Stampy School. 43 of the top 100 games channels on YouTube are produced in the US, but the UK is the second biggest country with 16 – or 17 if you claim PewDiePie, a Swede now based in Brighton. The Diamond Minecart (115.9m views in May), iBallisticSquid (75.6m),Yogscast (52.3m) and Wroetoshaw (37.7m) are some of the other British games channels building large audiences on YouTube, according to the chart. YouTube has become a huge platform for “Let’s Play” walk throughs and other games videos, fuelled by individual creators and multi-channel networks (MCNs) like Maker Studios, Machinima and Fullscreen. The most popular channels are eagerly courted by games developers and publishers...." (read more at link above)

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